Monday, January 5, 2009

Whoops! Apparently it's 2009 already, which means we got so wrapped up in reading Reston's instruction manual that we missed our second annual roundup of the year just passed. So in case you got an exit visa and managed to spend part of 2008 in an area without DRBs or Macaroni Grills, here's our informative look back. It was... a.... very... mauve year.

* For a “city of trees,” the mauve, oxygen-creating monsters sure have a whole bunch of enemies, including the gas company and the RA itself, which also likes to addle geese for fun and profit. Our treepocalypse was even mocked by what those cultural elitists like to sneeringly call "art." Fortunately, a well-written Web site can always help save the environment, particularly if people print out several thousand copies. Just don’t walk in whatever paltry patches of forest still remain, or the copperheads will kill you.